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When J.J. Watt announced his retirement from football with a simple tweet, he put his phone down and walked away from it for a bit.
“I knew it would be crazy,” he told reporters.
As you’d expect, Watt had a lot of messages and comments from friends, family and fans congratulating him on a tremendous career and whatever else you might say to one of the best players on and off the field to ever do it.
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Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt celebrates during the second half against the Buffalo Bills in Houston on Jan. 4, 2020.
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But as he was scrolling through his phone, Watt got a call.
“I’m scrolling through it and there’s this number that I don’t recognize that FaceTimes me,” Watt explained to reporters. “So, I’m like, ‘I’m not going to answer a FaceTime I don’t know.’ So, I just let it go to voicemail, and then I get a text from that number. And it’s a voice memo. I’m like, ‘Who is this number?’ So, I play the voice memo, and it’s – I wish I could play it so bad. I wish so bad.”
Watt went on to say it was “complete incoherence” from the voice memo sender, who Watt finally revealed was Cardinals rookie linebacker Jesse Luketa. And he only found out because he sent a picture.
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“A picture comes through, and it’s Jesse Luketa, our rookie outside linebacker, and he has cotton balls in both of his [cheeks]. He just got his wisdom teeth out,” Watt said.
The Cardinals then got the voice memo and decided to post it to Twitter, and it’s as funny as Watt made it seem.
“He’s high off his a–,” Watt said laughing. “He has no clue what he’s doing.”
“J.J., J.J., at the end of the season, I need a signed jersey, J.J.,” Luketa is heard saying in the voice memo. “That’s all I wanted to call and tell you. That’s all. Bye, J.J.”
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